AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +151%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

1920

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU104

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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